Help with Leopard install

[BiG_E_DuB]

Hey Everyone,

This is my first attempt at a Hackintosh install and I am having all sorts of problems.

 

System Specs:

Intel Quad Core Q6600

EVGA 122-CK-NF68-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

EVGA 640-P2-N829-A3 GeForce 8800GTS SSC 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Desktop Memory - Retail

500 GB Western Digital SATA HD

 

Work to Date:

I am running Vista 64 bit edition on my current PC. I have gotten a copy of the Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 and have turned on the OS Selector. I currently have 3 partitions set up. 250 GB for my current Vista install (NTFS), 50 GB Fat32 partition (set to primary), and a 160 GB Shared Drive (Fat32 set as logical).

 

Problem:

When I boot off my Acronis disk, I can usually get to the part right before you choose where you want to install Leopard. However, at random times up to this point, a grey screen comes over the screen and tells me I need to reboot my machine. Other times, it just locks up. The one time I actually got to the "Choose where to install Leopard" screen, it didn't recognize my hard drive at all.

 

Any ideas on how I can fix this issue? I really want to run this OS to see what all the fuss is about. Thanks guys!

[geshadow]

Hi Big,

 

I personally never tried to setup an install like the one you described to start out with but do use a dual boot of vista and leopard which I use Acronis to boot into, these are the steps I use (Use at your own risk, read all before trying, especially read the Finishing up portion since playing with the boot record can get messy):

 

1. Use the Leopard DVD Disk Utility to partition my SATA drive:

 

Partition 1 : Dos Fat

Partition 2 : HFS+ Journal; Also Name the partition with no spaces example: Leopard or OSx86Leopard

Partition 3 : Dos Fat

 

2. Exit from Disk Utility

3. Open Terminal

4. Enter command to find which HDD:

 

diskutil list

 

5. Use fdisk to make my first partition active:

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX <- 'X' is HDD you wish to install on

 

6. Get the partition table:

 

p

 

7. Make the first partition active (or whichever partition you're going to install vista):

 

f 1

 

8. Write to the MBR:

 

write

Press Y then <Enter>

 

9. Exit from fdisk:

exit

 

10. Quit the installer and remove the DVD.

 

11. Insert the Vista DVD and boot into setup.

12. Click Disk 0 <-My Vista partition

13. Click Advance

14. Click Format <- This will format my primary partition to NTFS instead of the Dos format I used in OS DVD Install.

15. Click Next to install Vista.

 

This for me is really a one time proceedure to prep my harddrive...any re-installs I need to do I can just format the partition and install.

 

Once Vista is running correctly, I then begin the Mac install.

 

1. Boot into the Mac installer DVD.

2. Open Terminal.

3. Use the following cmd to make sure I have the right HDD

 

diskutil list

 

4. Run the fdisk program again:

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX <- 'X' is the HDD with the Vista install

 

5. Get the partition table:

 

p

 

6. Make the OSX Partition the Active partition (for me its' the second partition):

 

f 2

write

exit

 

7. Quit Terminal.

8. Open Disk Utility.

9. Select the Leopard Volume.

10. Click the Erase Tab.

11. Click Erase Volume.

12. Quit Disk Utility.

 

I use Toh version so I have to go back into Terminal to make it bootable

 

1. Open Terminal.

2. Enter the following to change directories:

 

cd /usr/misc

 

3. Use the script for a bootable partition

 

./script.sh Leopard

 

4. Exit from Terminal (Don't worry about the error msgs)

5. Run through the OS install.

6. Allow the PC to reboot into MacOS

7. Restart the PC again without the DVD to make sure everything is still working on the Mac side.

 

 

Finishing up....

 

1. Reboot using the Mac install DVD.

2. Open Terminal.

3. Use the following cmd to make sure I have the right HDD

 

diskutil list

 

4. Run the fdisk program again:

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX <- 'X' is the HDD with the Vista install

 

5. Get the partition table:

 

p

 

6. Make the OSX Partition the Active partition (for me its' the second partition):

 

f 1

write

exit

 

7. Quit Terminal.

 

8. Restart the PC without the DVD and hope it boot's into Vista.

9. If it doesn't boot into Vista, I use the Vista DVD to repair the MBR boot record:

 

Enter DOS prompt

 

bootrec /fixmbr

bootrec /fixboot

 

10. Reboot the PC without the DVD.

11. Once in Vista install Acronis and setup the OS Install.

 

 

With your desciption you may be able to by-pass most of these steps and try to just partition your sda4 as HFS+ Journaled JUST MAKE SURE ITS THE ACTIVE PARTITION before doing it using Terminal.

 

 

Hope this helps

 

Geshadow